There were knops compassing it Molten figures: for the word
פקעים, pekagnim, signifies pictures or figures of all sorts, as gourds, flowers, beasts, &c. Ten in a cubit So there were three hundred of these knops in all, the sea being thirty cubits round. The knops were cast in two rows when it was cast They were not carved afterward, but cast at first when the sea was molten. And, there being two rows of them, Abarbinel thence concludes there were six hundred in all, one under another.